Alternating-current-motor control.



V.A.PYNN; ALTERNATING CURRENT MOTOR CONTROL.

Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY13,'1912'.

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, ALTERNATING CURRENT MOTOR CONTROL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIQE.

VALERIE ALFREB FYNN, ST. 'LG UIfl MESSUURI, A'SSIGNOR TO WAGNER ELECTRIC MANUFAGTURING COMPANY, 0T 1ST. LOUIS, 'MISSOUEE, A CORPGRATION OF MIS- SOURI.

Patented Sept. .9, 1913.

Application filed :May 13,1912. Serial No. 6920459.

To aZZ ar/m 2'3 may concern:

Be it known that I, Vaniznn ALFRED FYNN,

a subject of the King of England, residing at St. Louis, Missour United 'Idtates Ainerlca, have invented a certain new and' useful Alter-11ating-Current-lllotor Control, of which the following is such a full, clear,

and exact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to? single-phase motor when the speeds falls;

below, or exceeds a certain value.

Broadly speaking, my invention consists in deriving from the motor a plurality of. E. M. Ffs, the phase relation of which varies i rapidly with varying-speed, and impressing these E. M. F.s on a suitably constrncted polyphase relay. In the preferred form of v switch 19, located between the auxiliary momy invention, I soselect said '1 M. F.s

' that their phase diii'erencc is small when the 5 motor speed is low, but increases with in-- creasing motor speed. These E. M. F.s may I be obtained from the stator, or from the 130- tor, or from both, and may be derived from 3 selected motor windings, or from one or more suitably disposed auxiliary windings, In the accompanying drawings, Figure 'i1()\l"S a single-phase commutator, motor, the I stator of which is provided with a special; three-phaserclay Winding. Fig, 2 shows a; commutator motor in Wll-lC'lLiJ-lli? rotor also? carries a squirrel cage and thestator is pro- 1 vided with only one auxiliary Winding. Fig.

3 shows a motor similar to that of Fig. 2, but in which only part of the main stator winding is utilized for the purpose of feeding the relay. Fig. 4 is similar to Fig. 3, but the polyphase relay closes the compensating circuit through the agency of an auxiliary relay.

Fig. 1 diagranin'iatically indicates a single-phase twopole commutator motor adapted to start as a separately excited series induction machine, and to operate as a self-excited and artificially compensated induction motor with shunt characteristic.

The main stator winding of this motor is shown at i and is adaptcdto be connected, at starting, to the field winding 12, also dispoeedon the stator and displaced from l.

The compensating winding 5 is disposed coaxial'lywith the main inducing winding d, and the stator also carries an auxiliary three-phase stator winding 16, 17, 18. The rotor is provided with a commuted winding 6 short-circuited along theanis ofthc-main inducing winding 4 by means of the brushes 7, 8, and adapted to be connected to'the compensating winding by means of the excitin brushes 9, 10. The relay to be operated by the auxiliary windings 16, 17, 18, is provided with three inducing windings 23, 2d 25, disposed on the stationary member, and a movable member provided With a squirrel-cage winding 26 and pivoted on the shaft 27 and carrying the arm 28 provided with aconducting plate and controlled by the spring 29. This spring 29 tends to keep the conducting plate 30 away from the contacts 31, 39,, which, when short-circuited, close the exciting circuit of the motor com-, prising the exciting brushes 9, 10, and the compensating winding 5. The reversing tor windings 16, 17, 18, and the stator Windings of the polyphase relay, enables the direction of the torque exerted by the relay armature 26 to be changed. The reversing switch 15, located within the exciting circuit, enables the direction of the compensating E. M. F. derived. from C- to be adapted to the direction of the rotation of the motor. The switch 13, which may he referred to as the starting switch, either connects the line 3 directly to the main stator Winding it, or by way of the starting or field windinglfl. in the position shown Fig. 1, the winding 12 is in circuit witn the Winding 4 and the motor will start in one or the other direction, according to the position of the reversing switch 14. If it be desired to cut the starting Wind-in out of circuit after the machine has reache its full speed, then switch 13 should be moved to point 88. It is jknown that the motor shown in Fig. i will retain its series characteristic as long as the rotor exciting circuit remains open; and the purpose of the polyphase relay, in this particular case, to antomatically close-this rotor exciting circuit at a selected speed. To this end, said relay is connected to the auxiliary stator windings 16, 17, 18. in such manner that the relay armature is impelled to move the plate 30 into contact with. the points 3 and 32, and

the arrangement is such that the torque exerted by the armature 26 willonly reach a valuesuificient t overpower the spring phase, but as the speed of the. motor in creases, the phase difference between the two fluxes also increases, and, theoretically, should become exactly equal to 90'degrees as soon as. the synchronous speed has been reached. inpractice, this ideal condition is seldom, if ever, attained, but the phase difference between the two fluxes does increase with increasing speed and does reach a value in the neighborhood of 90 degrees at synchron-ism. This being the case, it will be seen that the E. M. F .-s induced in the three auxiliary stator windings'16, 17 and 18 will, at first, all be of practically the same phase, for the reason that a purely oscillating alternate current field is present in the motor; but, near synchronism, this oscillating field will be replaced by a rotating one and the E. M. F.s induced in said three windings will be displaced in phase by such angles as correspond to their space displacement on the stator; As long as the E. M. F.s in the windings 16, 17 and 18 are nearly of thesame phase, no appreciable torque will be exerted by the armature 26 of the; polyphase relay, but this torque will increase with increasing phase difference between a said E. M. F.s and will reach a maximum when a perfect rotating field is present in the motor from which the polyphase relay'is fed. I have found that the difference in phase between the transformer and the mo tor flux increases slowly at first, but that this increase becomes much more rapid as 'synchronism is approached. This condition is of materialhelp in securing a positive operation of the relay. For theconditionsindicated in Fig. 1, 'the three-phase relay should. preferably be so adjusted that the contacts 31 and 32 are bridged when the motor has come to within-20 'or 25% of its synchronous speed. As soon as 31 and 32 are connected by the plate 30, the motor assunies a shunt characteristic and the windin 5 provides the artificial compensatioiii A ter the three-phase relay has operated,

switch 13 can, if desired, be moved to point 38, but this is by no means necessary. It is. clear that the posit on of the auxiliary At starting, these windings 16, 17 and 18 relatively to the alreadyexisting statpr windings is quite im- I have also observed that the material. E. M. F. induced-in an auxiliary Winding such as 16, is of approximatelythe same phase as that of the E; M. F. appearing in a coaxial motor winding, and it is, therefore,

possible in some cases to. make useof a mo-' tor Wll'ldlllg instead of an auxiliary windin which, if used, would be coaxially disposed with said motor winding. Such an arrange, ment 1s illustrated in Fig. Themotor shown in Fig. 2 comprises a main inducing winding 4: and a. coaxial compensating winding 5, both disposed on the strator. The rotor carries a commuted Winding 6 and a squirrel cage 11. The commuted winding isshort-circuited' by means of. the brushes 7, 8, along the line of magnetization produced by the maininducing winding 41;

"and the exciting brushes 9, 10, displaced spring controlled lever 28 adapted to connect p the contacts 31, 32, thus givingthe machinea shunt'characteristic by closing the compensating circuit. This two-phase relay is .fed by two E. F.s derived from the motor. One of these E. -M. F.s is derived from theterminals of the main inducing winding 4 by means of the transformer 36.

Its direction can be changed by means of the reversing switch 19. The other E. M. F.

is derived from the relay winding 20 by means of the transformer 37. p

In order to start the motor of Fig. 2, the reversing switch 14 is thrown in the one or the other direction, thus connecting the line to the main inducing winding 4 and to'the exciting brushes 9, 10, of the rotor and placing the latter in series with the main inducing winding. The direction in which the reversing switch 14 is thrown determines the directio'n'of the current through the rotor along the exciting axis 9, 10, and therefore, determines its direction of rotation. If it bedesired to improve-the power factor of this machine and to keep its speed near the synchronous, then the compensating circuit should be closed at the points 31, 32, afterthe-reversin switch 15 has' been thrown in the correct irection.' This reversing switch 15 changes the terminals of the compensating winding -5 relatively to the exciting, brushes 9, 1 0, and should be thrown in one direction tor'a clockwise ro-. tation and in the opposite direction for a counterclock rotation of ther'otor. It is best for this switch 15 to be thrown in the correct direction simultaneously with thestarting switch 11, in which case, the relay will automatically perform the only'remainingoperation, namely, that ofinterconnecting the points 31, 32. The torque exerted by the armature 26 of the two-phase relay is very small at starting because the magnetic flux appearing in the motoralong the axis of 4 is very nearly of the same phase as the magnetic flux appearing in said motor along the axis of 20. As the rotor speed increases, the phase difference between these two fluxes also increases, thus increasing the phase difference between the E. M. F.s impressed on the.inducing windings 23, 24, of the two-phase relay. When the rotor 6 has reached a nearly synchronous speed, this phase difference is quite large. The success ful operation of the relay, however, not only depends on a suflicient diiiercnce of phase between the two motor fluxes, butalso on their magnitude: In this. respect, the presenceof the squirrel-cage winding 11 is of material benefit in that it causes the magnitude f the flux along the -axis 9, 10, of the motor to rise near synchronism to a value nearly equal to that of the flux appearing in the axis 7 8, and due to the main inducing winding 4'. For the reasons stated, as long as the rotor 6 is standing still, or revolving slowly, the relay exerts practically no torque, but, as the motor speed increases, both the magnitude of and the phase difference between the E. M. F.s impressed on the relay increase, causing said relay to develop a rapidly increasing torque which.

eventually becomes sufficient to bring plate 30 into contact with the points 31, 32. The direction of the torque exerted by the relay armature 26 changes with a change in the direction of rotation of the motor. The reversing switch 19 is, therefore, provided for the purpose of keepin the relay torque in the same direction for both directions of rotation of the motor.

Fig. 3 differs from Fig. 2 in that the transformers 36 and 37 interposed between the motor; windings and the relay have been omitted, and in that only part of the main inducing winding4 is utilized for the purpose of feeding one of the relay windings. Furthermore, the direction of the torque exerted by the relay in Fig. v3 is allowed to change with the change in the direction of rotation of the motor, duplicate contacts 31,

32 and 33, 34;, being provided at each side of the lever 28 controlled by the relay armature.26, with the result that the compensating circuit is closed by the relay regardless of the direction of the torque exerted by the latter. I

In Fig. 4 is shown a modification of Fig.

In this arrangement, the polyphase rc-' lay does not close the compensating circuit *shown in the figure.

ner, either directly from the mains, or by means of a small storage battery 43, as The object of this modification is to relieve the polyphase re lay of as much work as possible. The current in the compensating or the exciting circuit of a single-phase motor is often large, making it necessary to 'provide heavy contacts 31, 32 and 33, 34. In order to insure agood contact between these heavy contacts and the correspondingly heavy plates 30 and 35, it would be necessary for the armature 26 to exert a powerful torque, thus making the polyphase relay unnecessarily large. This difficulty is avoided by using the polyphase relay as an intermediate relay, throwing the heavy duty on a relay such as 39 of Fig. 4, also the smaller the input into the polyphase relay, the smaller will be the influence of this relay on the operation of the motor with which it cooperates; After the exciting circuit of the motor described has been closed by means of the cooperating relay, and Whether a compensating Winding has been included in said circuit or not, the conditions of cooperation change to some extent. After the exciting circuit of the motor has been closed, the torque exerted by'the relay becomes dependent on the load of the motor. WVhen the motor runs light, the relay torque is generallyv in excess of the torque exerted by said relay during the starting operation, but diminishes with increasing load. When the motor becomes heavily overloaded, the relay torque diminishes sufiiciently to open the exciting, or compensating circuit, thus reestablishing the starting connection and placing the machine in a position to regain its proper speed as soon as the overload has been removed.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let.

ters Patent of the United States is:

1. The combination with a single-phase motor, of relay controlled means for reorganizing its circuits, and means for deriving a plurality of E. M. F.s of differing phase from the motor and impressing said E. M.

F.s on the relay to produce a revolving field therein.

2. In a single-phase motor, the combination with an inducing member provided with a main inducing winding and an auxiliary winding displaced therefrom, of an induced member, a relay for reorganizing the circuits of the motor, and means for impressing on said relay a plurality of EM. F.s of differing phase, one of said E. M. F.s being derived from the auxiliary winding.

The combination with a single-phase motor, of means" dependent on the speed of said motor for generating aplurality of a plurality of E. M.

E. M. F.s of differing relay, a switch controlled thereby for reorganizing the motor circuits and means for impressing the polyphase E. M. F.s on the relay.

4. In a single-phase motor, the combination with an inducing member, of an induced member provided with two sets of brushes, one of said sets being in line with the magnetization produced-by the inducing member, a switch in circuit with the other set of brushes, a polyphase relay controlling said switch, and means for deriving a plurality of E. M. F.s of difiering phase from the motor and impressing said E. M. F.s on the relay.

5. In a single-phase motor, the combination with an inducing member provided with a main inducing winding, of an induced member closed along one axis, a switch and connections for closing it along another axis, a relay governing said switch, an auxiliary winding on the inducing member displaced from the main inducing winding, and means for impressing on the relay I F.s of differing phase, one of said E. M. F.s being derived from said auxiliary winding. I

6. In combination, a single-phase motor having its armature short-circ'uited along t one axis, a switch in circuit with the armaing said switch, a second switch with the relay 0f the first switch, for operating the second switch, and means for impressing upon'the second relay :1 pluphase, a polyphase rality of E. M. Ffs ofdifi'ering phase cleorganizing the circuits of the motor, and

means for deriving a plurality of E. M. F.s of difi ering phase from the motor and impressing said E. M. F.s on the relay.

9. In a single phase motor, the combination with an inducing member provided with a'main inducing winding and an auxiliary winding displaced therefrom, of mainduced member having a squirrel-cage winding and a commuted wind-ing, a relay for re organizing the circuits of the motor and means for impressingon said relay a plurality of E. M. F.s, one of said E. M. F.s

i being derived from theauxiliary winding. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in the presence ture along another axis, a relay, foroperatof the two subscribing Witnessesin circuit 5 a relay j VALERE ALFRED FYNN. 1,. 5. Witnesses:

A. ALEXANDER, G. M. SHQRE.

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